MSI RD480 Neo2 - Manual (Page 13)

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Getting Started
Onboard IDE
† An IDE controller on the ULi
® M1573 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA 133/100/66 operation modes
† Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
Onboard Serial ATA
† SATA controller integrated in M1573
- Supports 4 SATA ports with up to 150MB/s transfer rate
- Supports RAID 0/ RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 mode
USB Interface
† 8 USB ports
- 4 ports in the rear I/O, 4 ports via the external bracket
LAN
† Supports GB LAN
- Supports 10/100/1000 Mb/s Fast Ethernet by Realtek 8110SB
IEEE 1394 (Optional)
† VIA
® 6306 IEEE 1394 controller
- Supports up to three 1394 ports (rear panel x 1, pinheader x 2).
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
Audio
† Azalia link controller integrated in M1573 chipset.
† 7.1 channels audio codec Realtek ALC880
- Compliance with HD Audio (Azalia) 1.0 spec
MSI Reminds You...
1. Please note that users cannot install OS, either WinME or Win98,
in their SATA hard drives. Under these two OSs, SATA can only be
used as an ordinary storage device.
2. To create a bootable RAID volume for a Windows 2000 environment,
Microsoft ’s Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4) is required. As
the end user cannot boot without SP4, a combination installation
CD must be created before attempting to install the operating sys-
tem onto the bootable RAID volume.
To create the combination installation CD, please refer to the fol-
lowing website:
h t t p : / / w w w . m i c r o s o f t . c o m / w i n d o w s 2 0 0 0 / d o w n l o a d s /
servicepacks/sp4/HFdeploy.htm